Supplements of vitamin E and selenium don’t appear to prevent prostate cancer. This doesn’t mean that foods containing these nutrients lack a protective effect, just that isolated forms of the nutrients in pills fail to deliver. More than 35,000 men age 50 and older have been taking one or both supplements or dummy pills as [...]
Archive for October, 2008
Vitamin E and Selenium Supplements Don’t Prevent Prostate Cancer
Posted in Uncategorized on October 27, 2008 |
Dying of Old Age
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2008 |
The legal requirement that all deaths be attributed to a named disease rather than just plain old age comes under scrutiny in this New York Times article. … every death must be attributed to a single disease, which is the immediate cause of death. A second disease may be cited as the intermediate cause, and [...]
Best Cancer Fighting Foods
Posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2008 |
Here’s a brief online article by David Servan-Schreiber, MD, author of Anticancer. The good doctor is a cancer survivor himself and knows whereof he speaks. I’ve learned that the anticancer diet is the exact opposite of the typical American meal: mostly colorful vegetables and legumes, plus unsaturated fats (olive, canola, or flaxseed oils), garlic, herbs, [...]
Greens, Greens, They’re Good for Your Heart
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2008 |
Not that this is news for well-informed people, but another large study has confirmed that leafy greens and other whole plant foods are much better for your heart than salty, fatty foods. From Agence France Presse: Diets worldwide that are rich in fried and salty foods increase heart attack risk, while eating lots of fruit, [...]
Disgrace of the Day
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2008 |
U.S. food companies sell their foods in Britain minus the synthetic dyes. General Mills, Kraft and McDonald’s are among the usual suspects.
Many Doctors Give Placebos
Posted in Uncategorized on October 24, 2008 |
Many American doctors give patients placebo pills without informing the patients that they are doing so. According to a Reuters story, this runs counter to AMA ethical guidelines, which state that the patient must be informed. Of course, if you inform the patient that you’re giving him/her a placebo, it no longer is a placebo. [...]
Center for Mind-Body Medicine Receives Major Defense Department Grant
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2008 |
For those who attended Dr. James Gordon’s seminar at the Cleveland Chiropractic College Homecoming earlier this month, this announcement of a major DOD grant is exciting news. From the press release: DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AWARDS GRANT TO THE CENTER FOR MIND-BODY MEDICINE Date: October 22, 2008 The Washington, DC based Center for Mind-Body Medicine (CMBM) [...]
Smoking Cessation Drug Tops Adverse Event List
Posted in Uncategorized on October 23, 2008 |
The list includes 50 deaths during the first quarter of 2008. The drug is varenicline (Chantix), first approved in 2006. From Medpage Today: The Institute for Safe Medication Practices said that total put varenicline at the top of its list of drugs associated with serious injuries during the quarter. Heparin was second. The institute’s drug-safety [...]
More Than Half of U.S. Employers Offer Wellness Programs
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2008 |
This continues a trend. Cost-effectiveness is the main driver, but it coincides with actual health value. Smoking, exercise and weight management are among the main offerings. The MetLife survey found that 70 percent of employers who offer wellness programs saw them as a “very important tool for employee retention.” The 2007 survey of 1,380 full-time [...]
Speed of Eating Key to Obesity
Posted in Uncategorized on October 22, 2008 |
It’s not just the quantity of the food we eat, but how fast we eat it. According to Japanese researchers reporting their findings in the British Medical Journal: Just under half of the 3,000 volunteers told researchers they tended to eat quickly. Compared with those who did not eat quickly, fast-eating men were 84% more [...]
